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Chicago examiner * * * vol xv no 150 a m thursday Chicago june 14 1917 thursday register tjctr'tr two ptrmta inchicago elsewhere d b pÂ»uat office x^klcili wv and buburb3 three cento success assured for 2,000,000,000 loan s3 ill is added i una h[fe city will reach minimum quota if it gives 13,886,200 more total amount now is 246,113,800 drive continues new york june 13 reports from the twelve federal reserve dis tricts indicated that at the close of business to-night the total subscrip tions to the liberty loan exceeded 1,900,000,000 baltimore md june 13.â€”sec retary of the treasury mcadoo here to-night declared it seemed certain that ten billion dollars would be needed by the united states to wage the war for twelve months whicago will subscribe ror its mini mum allotment of liberty loan bonds â€” and more this seemed certain last night when it was found the total sub scriptions for yesterday were 33 i49,300 this leaves only 513,886,200 to be subscribed before the minimum allot ment of 260,000,000 is reached finan ciers who are guiding and thousands f workers who are pushing sales of the bonds in the seventh federal re serve banking district have set their ambition at 300,000,000 or as near the maximum allotment of 325,000 00 as possible total sow 246,113,800 at close of business last night the otal estimated subscriptions for the entire district were 246,113,800 but only 217,826,000 had been forwarded o the district reserve bank this means that subscriptions for 42,000 000 more of the issue must be at the nank to-morrow noon if Chicago and he surrounding district is to take its roper place among the other dis tricts of the nation secretary of the treasury mcadoo in a telegram to james b mcdougal governor of the Chicago federal re serve bank made it known finally that to-day and to-morrow morning are the last opportunities for sub scription to the bond issue mr mc dougal published this statement concerning a current rumor that he date for closing subscriptions to the liberty loan would be post poned a few days we are definte ly informed to-day by the treasury department that there is no foun dation for this rumor and that sub scriptions fbr bonds accompanied by the initial 2 per cent payment must reach the federal reserve banks not later than noon friday flag day to boost sale to put it over and well over every force in the city which has been working for the loan has pledged to redouble efforts to-day and to-morrow morning this is flag day and peculiar significance will be given the celebration in the schools and in all places of business by an effort to make the day's dem onstration practical as well as spir itual other news of the liberty loan is presented on page four sharp rise in loss of british ships for week loxdon june 13 the admir alty report to-day shows that twenty-two british merchantmen of more than 1,600 tons ten mer chantmen of less than 1,600 tons and six fishing vessels were sunk the weekly table of losses since may 6 shows total over small weekly 1.600 er losses tons craft may 6 46 24 22 may 13 23 18 5 may 20 27 18 9 may 27 19 18 1 june 3 18 15 3 june 10 32 22 10 25 killed in new york blast huge sugar refineries ablaze after explosion scores trapped is fear new york june 14 thursday â€” heavy loss of life is believed to have occurred in a boiler explosion and resultant fire in the big williams burg plant of the american sugar refining company at 1:15 o'clock this morning the estimates of the dead run from twen ty-five to 100 two eleven story build ings have been destroyed fifty men were reported trapped on the seventh floor of one of the buildings company officials state the men escaped others declare that not one of them got out home guard called out the panic among the women whose husbands and sons were working in the plant became so great that the entire home guard of brooklyn was called out to preserve order the ex plosion shook the entire williams burg section some of the injured were found running in the streets suffering from burns many of them had their clothing burned off four alarms turned in four alarms of fire were turned in fire apparatus from manhattan was sent to the scene to aid the brooklyn . firemen the heat of the fire was so intense firemen were unable to approach closer than a block twenty-two workmen badly injured were taken to hospitals ruth law to fly across state to-day st louis june 13 ruth law aviatrix who is to bombard st louis to-morrow morning with red cross and liberty bond literature arrived by train to-night from joplin she will start her non-stop flight from jefferson barracks to Chicago to morrow afternoon samuel insull now a doctor of science schenectady n y june 13 â€” ex-president william howard Taft to-day received the degree of doctor of laws at union college mr Taft delivered the chancellor's address samuel insull Chicago received the sc d degree northcliffe's brother to be food dictator london june 13 â€” lord north cliffe's brother harold sidney karms worth first baron rothemere will be appointed food controller to succeed lord devonport it was reported on good authority to-night loeb suffers dual defeat 66 reinstated superintendent shoop gets 4 year appointment at 12,000 a year salary larson is appointed business manager without duties of secretary session is stormy charges and animosities which even a two-hour caucus had failed to iron out yesterday disrupted the peace of the school board â€” a peace which has existed ever since president jacob m loeb opened war upon mayor thompson and the city administra tion while a gallery that packed the board room looked on and applauded as one act after another was rail roaded through the board accom plished three actions two of which were in direct opposition to the aims of president loeb 1 voted 14 to 5 to restore subject to superintendent shoop's rec ommendation the sixty-six teachers ousted last june for defying the loeb rule 9 unanimously elected john d shoop superintendent of schools for four years at a 2,000 increase of salary although he was slated to go when president loeb made his ex pose involving mayor thompson and although president loeb appointed a special committee to recommend his successor mr shoop's salary is now 12,000 o elected lewis e larson business manager of the board at a sal ary of 12,000 before these things were accom plished charges that a deal was on were thrown to and fro and oppo sition to the reinstatement of the , teachers rose to a high pitch in the heat of the discussion trustee hol puch shouted no matter what board the city administration may send over here after we are gone they couldn't do worse than we have done to-day how trustees voted he also charged that before the sixty-six teachers involved are through they will make the board pay for all the fun they have had at the expense of the board for the past year the question of restoring the po sitions to the teachers was raised at the end of the stormy session harris w huehl introduced it in the form of a resolution indorsed by twelve other members of the board as follows mrs john macma-mnx loeb hun harry a lipsky e j plÃŸgott ernest j kruetgcn dr peter c clem ralph c otis enson florence p vos c s peterson drink m j collins mrs w e gaua otto f warning sher pi d one more vote that of vice presi dent john w eckhart was cast in favor of the resolution the follow ing five members voted against it trustees holpuch mrs sethness u s liner rams sinks biggest diver attacked by two submarines she escapes four torpedoes and veers into one of attackers range too close to permit use of deck guns periscope goes down fast after crash new york june 13 the story of how one of germany's largest submarines fell victim to yankee sea manship was told to-day when the big american steamship that did the trick arrived at an american port on her voyage to the other side the vessel was attacked at the same moment by two u-boats acting in concert from port and starboard it was on the morning of may 19 when the steamship was about 200 miles off the coast of ireland that the lookouts caught sight of two periscopes at the same instant they perceived two torpedoes already cleaving toward the liner the sub marines were too close to permit the liner to use her defense guns the captain ordered the helm hard over swinging the vessel out of her course as she turned the tor pedoes just missed her or grazed her bows at a harmless angle puts on all steam orders had been flashed to the engine room for every ounce of steam to be crowded in the boilers and great plumes of smoke began to trail from her funnels as the half naked men in the stokehold jumped to the work which meant life or death to all on board while the navy gunners chafed be side their six-inch pets the skipper stationed himself beside tire quarter master at the wheel and kept him reversing the helm at intervals so that the liner heeled like a yacht as she zigzagged between the two as sassins as she made her second turn two more torpedoes slithered toward her but her erratic course baffled the u-boats and both missed their mark another sharp order from the captain sent the liner swinging on her heel again this time so skillfully had she been maneuvered her sharp bow was pointed straight at the star board submarine too late to dodge it was too late for the german to get out of the way the american ship swept over the frail submersible with a shock felt by all on board and it was seen no more one blade of the liner's propeller was snapped off as she sank the Ã¼ boat as for the port submarine its periscope disappeared a few moments later vanderlip confers with northcliffe new york june 13 â€” lord north cliffe motored to westchester coun ty and spent part of the day golfing he had a conference with frank vanderlip president of the national city bank rear admiral robert e peary was a caller ex-czar granted right to cast vote petrograd june 13 nicholas romanoff former czar will be al lowed to vote at the elections for the constituent assembly the council in charge of the legislative preliminaries ruled to-day members of the ex czar's household may also vote pay prisoners is u.s proposal to the kaiser washington june 13 t0 prevent unnecessary hard ships the united states to-day proposed that if germany will act on a reciprocal basis the united states will grant all ger man officers taken prisoners the same rate of pay as officers of corresponding rank in the amer ican army this would mean that ger many would pay american of ficers held as prisoners and the united states german officers during the war the communication was sent to germany through the spanish government root begins vital parleys u s commission reaches petro grad as russian envoys arrive here for conferences petrograd via london june 13 â€” the american mission headed by elihu root has arrived here the american railroad commission headed by john f stevens consist ing of eleven members also arrived to-day and was escorted into the capital by m metinsky immediately after his arrival mr stevens said the commission's aim was to assist the russian people and the russian government especially in railroad affairs by placing at rus sia's disposal america's technical skill and industrial resources its primary object is to help the allies in the war against germany said mr stevens we are further ready to facilitate the supply to russia of war materi als and iron and coal russ mission in v 9 washington june 13 the rus sian commission has reached the united states according to advices received by the state department the russian mission includes special ambassador b a bakhmetieff and mme bakh metieff staff captain of the guard doubassoff aid-de-camp and mme doubassoff omeltchenko vice direct or of the customs department and karopvitch attache of the chancery of the war department many notables in part the ministry of war is represented by lieutenant general roop captaun lebedeff aid-de-camp to general roop captain chutt and lieutenant martinoff the ministry of ways and com munications sends professor lomen osoff member of the council of en gineers and head of the railroad mis sion m kuprianoff assistant engi neer m balkoff m postnikoff m volkenau m sak m delinoff the ministry of agriculture is rep resented by professor borodine and m putiloff the chancery of credit by m novitsky m pertzoff and m bushkaroff the artillery department by colonel oranovsky and captain visotsky principal questions to be dealt with at the sessions here will be railroads and credits pershing and t r get nebraska u degrees lincoln neb june vi â€” the uni versity oj nebraska to-day conferred the degree of doctor of laws on major general pershing and the de gree of doctor of civil law on theodore roosevelt peashing in paris acclaimed by throng seventy miles from front leader of american expedition pledges to do his part greeted at i station by joffre and sharp ] paris june 13 major general pershing arrived in paris late i to-day the general received a tumultu ous welcome as he proceeded through the thronged boulevards at the station he was welcomed by marshal joffre ambassador sharp and paul painleve minister of war after the greetings had taken place the party drove in open car riages through the grand boulevards ! general pershing riding with minis j ter painleve and marshal joffre with ambassador sharp to a hotel on the place de concordes which will be the american head.quarters dinner given by ambassador sharp at a dinner given tonight by ambassador sharp general pershing was introduced to the french cabinet francois de jessen quotes general pershing as saying i came to europe to organize the participation of our army in this immense conflict of free nations against the enemie3 of liberty and not to deliver fine speeches at ban quets as a man and a soldier 1 am profoundly proud of the high mis sion with which i am charged but all this is purely pergonal and con sequently might appear out of pro portion with the solemnity of the hour if 1 have thought it proper to indulge in this confidence it is be cause i wish to express my ad miration for the heroism of the i french soldiers and at the same time express my pride in being at the side of the french and allied armies u s knows what it wants to do it is much more important i think to announce that we are the precursors of an army that is firm ly resolved to do its part on the continent for the cause the ameri can nation has adopted as its own it is not my role to promise or propresy let it suffice to tell you we know what we are doing and what we want black jack pershing is now less than seventy miles from the western i battle front when general pershing landed at boulogne this morning he was met at the quay by general pelletier rep resenting the french government commandant hue representing the minister of war general lucas representing marshal joffre and others british soldiers and marines lined up along the quay rendered military honors as the vessel flying the stars and stripes preceded by destroyers and accompanied by hydroplanes and dirigible balloons steamed up the channel military bands played the star spangled banner and the marseil laise manchuriahits monitor in n.y diver net new york june 13 the 14 000-ton british steamship manchuria inward bound swerv ing in the fog to escape a subma rine net guarding the lower bay to-night crashed into the united states monitor amphitrite on patrol duty off quarantine the steamship carried 100 passengers and a crew of 200 a large rent was torn in its starboard bow the damage to the monitor was not disclosed a panic ensued on hoard the manchuria men and women rushed to the decks the two vessels were locked tight by the crash and the monitor backed into the submarine net only the opening of the net to-morrow will free her the manchuria began to take water fast and was beached on the mud flats off brooklyn row qver draft boardforstate washington flooded with pro tests against selection of ex emption body by lowden washington june 13 â€” protests against the appointment of exemp tion boards in Illinois on the recom mendation of governor lowden have been pouring in upon the war de partment and the president during the last few days the probable cry of partisanship in exemptions under a selective draft law was one of the reasons advanced by many members of congress for their opposition to the measure they are now pointing to the pro tests against the appointments as justification of their attitude wilson gravely concerned the appointment of local exemp tion boards is causing grave misap prehension with president wilson on account of such cases as Chicago presents with a mayor whose al leged pro-german leanings have made him a subject of national com ment and in the case of Illinois where the governor has been accused of partisanship in the appointment of a council of state defense senator lewis of Illinois said to night that the governor had evi denced extreme partisanship in the council of state defense and thus in the eyes of many citizens had disqualified himself for the more im portant work of naming members of exemption boards 30,004 boards to name it is estimated that at least 30,000 boards of exemption must be ap pointed while the president has the power to name every member the task is impossible in the alloted time in the case of Chicago and Illinois the president could possibly name the members of all the boards of exemption both local and review if he deems it necessary to expunge party bias it is possible that he will take such a step u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair thurxdny i'rtday and saturday somewhat mariner by fridny mod erate northwest winds breaming lium and variable tbmperatcrk kr.r twealtj-foiir hours ending 12 a m . highest s2 lowest 56 average 60 normal temperature for the day 66 deficiency of temperaluie since january 1 is decrees sunrise to-day 4:14 basset 7 20 complete government reocrt on page 16 london air raid victims 536 9 killed iplis i bam mm one german airplane shot down bomb hurled upon school kills 10 children wounds 50 others record toll of life defending craft battle invaders 18,000 feet in air roofs of city crowded with spectators of thrilling 15-minute raid i amsterdam june 13 â€” eng i land is contemplating moving its^^an capital from london because of the numerous air raids by the germans says the berlin morgenpost toll of recent raids date ol raid killed injured may u i may 25 ie 1/4 june 5 2 2 june 13 7 4j7 london june 13 1n the fourth raid on england by german aeroplanes 97 persons were killed to-day and 439 wounded the raiders traversed essex county and dropped bombs in lon the killed comprise 55 men 16 women and 26 children the injured include 223 men 122 women and 94 children no damage of military import ance was done according to offi cial reports thirteen bombs fell in london mostly in the poor districts of the east end one of the bombs struck a school house killing ten children *~ 4 and wounding fifty the casualty figures were an nounced late to-night by andrew bonar law bulk of casualties among school children one of the attacking airplanes was shot down it was announced by the earl of derby in the house f com mons the squadron was / jmpoattl of fifteen machines the raid lasted about fifteen minutes v the bulk of the casualties were in the crowded east end of london the ghastliest episode of the raid occurred at a school in that district a soldier who aided in the work of rescuing injured children told the story j hearing what i thought was gun a firing the soldier said i stopped fl to speak to a policeman just then j there was another explosion and the policeman pointing upward said " the raiders are out good heav ens they have got the school run round and give them all the help you can and i will get the police schoolroom reveals terrible sight vooked up in the sky and there i could just see five tiny little things like gilded fish miles up almost in visible looking round i could see three more to the south and per haps on the other side of the thames , i dashed around to the school as the a policemen advised and there i found mm the class mistress who had got the mm uninjured children into a passage h where if there came another bomb.^^f would be less likely to hurt she wa mm all alone until i came the sight was a terrible one ondh continued on 6th page sth column w l v â– vbh(p ate fipflv tilp drill of firpyipynl ftnviip^t whn tjnsz tiptzi nvin1~pfl thiq rtq ii si wlnyino t^nli^'tmon't wloola only i i days more in which to buy your liberty bonds subscription sale ends friday noon tjf a fb ib jp^^kpul

Chicago examiner * * * vol xv no 150 a m thursday Chicago june 14 1917 thursday register tjctr'tr two ptrmta inchicago elsewhere d b pÂ»uat office x^klcili wv and buburb3 three cento success assured for 2,000,000,000 loan s3 ill is added i una h[fe city will reach minimum quota if it gives 13,886,200 more total amount now is 246,113,800 drive continues new york june 13 reports from the twelve federal reserve dis tricts indicated that at the close of business to-night the total subscrip tions to the liberty loan exceeded 1,900,000,000 baltimore md june 13.â€”sec retary of the treasury mcadoo here to-night declared it seemed certain that ten billion dollars would be needed by the united states to wage the war for twelve months whicago will subscribe ror its mini mum allotment of liberty loan bonds â€” and more this seemed certain last night when it was found the total sub scriptions for yesterday were 33 i49,300 this leaves only 513,886,200 to be subscribed before the minimum allot ment of 260,000,000 is reached finan ciers who are guiding and thousands f workers who are pushing sales of the bonds in the seventh federal re serve banking district have set their ambition at 300,000,000 or as near the maximum allotment of 325,000 00 as possible total sow 246,113,800 at close of business last night the otal estimated subscriptions for the entire district were 246,113,800 but only 217,826,000 had been forwarded o the district reserve bank this means that subscriptions for 42,000 000 more of the issue must be at the nank to-morrow noon if Chicago and he surrounding district is to take its roper place among the other dis tricts of the nation secretary of the treasury mcadoo in a telegram to james b mcdougal governor of the Chicago federal re serve bank made it known finally that to-day and to-morrow morning are the last opportunities for sub scription to the bond issue mr mc dougal published this statement concerning a current rumor that he date for closing subscriptions to the liberty loan would be post poned a few days we are definte ly informed to-day by the treasury department that there is no foun dation for this rumor and that sub scriptions fbr bonds accompanied by the initial 2 per cent payment must reach the federal reserve banks not later than noon friday flag day to boost sale to put it over and well over every force in the city which has been working for the loan has pledged to redouble efforts to-day and to-morrow morning this is flag day and peculiar significance will be given the celebration in the schools and in all places of business by an effort to make the day's dem onstration practical as well as spir itual other news of the liberty loan is presented on page four sharp rise in loss of british ships for week loxdon june 13 the admir alty report to-day shows that twenty-two british merchantmen of more than 1,600 tons ten mer chantmen of less than 1,600 tons and six fishing vessels were sunk the weekly table of losses since may 6 shows total over small weekly 1.600 er losses tons craft may 6 46 24 22 may 13 23 18 5 may 20 27 18 9 may 27 19 18 1 june 3 18 15 3 june 10 32 22 10 25 killed in new york blast huge sugar refineries ablaze after explosion scores trapped is fear new york june 14 thursday â€” heavy loss of life is believed to have occurred in a boiler explosion and resultant fire in the big williams burg plant of the american sugar refining company at 1:15 o'clock this morning the estimates of the dead run from twen ty-five to 100 two eleven story build ings have been destroyed fifty men were reported trapped on the seventh floor of one of the buildings company officials state the men escaped others declare that not one of them got out home guard called out the panic among the women whose husbands and sons were working in the plant became so great that the entire home guard of brooklyn was called out to preserve order the ex plosion shook the entire williams burg section some of the injured were found running in the streets suffering from burns many of them had their clothing burned off four alarms turned in four alarms of fire were turned in fire apparatus from manhattan was sent to the scene to aid the brooklyn . firemen the heat of the fire was so intense firemen were unable to approach closer than a block twenty-two workmen badly injured were taken to hospitals ruth law to fly across state to-day st louis june 13 ruth law aviatrix who is to bombard st louis to-morrow morning with red cross and liberty bond literature arrived by train to-night from joplin she will start her non-stop flight from jefferson barracks to Chicago to morrow afternoon samuel insull now a doctor of science schenectady n y june 13 â€” ex-president william howard Taft to-day received the degree of doctor of laws at union college mr Taft delivered the chancellor's address samuel insull Chicago received the sc d degree northcliffe's brother to be food dictator london june 13 â€” lord north cliffe's brother harold sidney karms worth first baron rothemere will be appointed food controller to succeed lord devonport it was reported on good authority to-night loeb suffers dual defeat 66 reinstated superintendent shoop gets 4 year appointment at 12,000 a year salary larson is appointed business manager without duties of secretary session is stormy charges and animosities which even a two-hour caucus had failed to iron out yesterday disrupted the peace of the school board â€” a peace which has existed ever since president jacob m loeb opened war upon mayor thompson and the city administra tion while a gallery that packed the board room looked on and applauded as one act after another was rail roaded through the board accom plished three actions two of which were in direct opposition to the aims of president loeb 1 voted 14 to 5 to restore subject to superintendent shoop's rec ommendation the sixty-six teachers ousted last june for defying the loeb rule 9 unanimously elected john d shoop superintendent of schools for four years at a 2,000 increase of salary although he was slated to go when president loeb made his ex pose involving mayor thompson and although president loeb appointed a special committee to recommend his successor mr shoop's salary is now 12,000 o elected lewis e larson business manager of the board at a sal ary of 12,000 before these things were accom plished charges that a deal was on were thrown to and fro and oppo sition to the reinstatement of the , teachers rose to a high pitch in the heat of the discussion trustee hol puch shouted no matter what board the city administration may send over here after we are gone they couldn't do worse than we have done to-day how trustees voted he also charged that before the sixty-six teachers involved are through they will make the board pay for all the fun they have had at the expense of the board for the past year the question of restoring the po sitions to the teachers was raised at the end of the stormy session harris w huehl introduced it in the form of a resolution indorsed by twelve other members of the board as follows mrs john macma-mnx loeb hun harry a lipsky e j plÃŸgott ernest j kruetgcn dr peter c clem ralph c otis enson florence p vos c s peterson drink m j collins mrs w e gaua otto f warning sher pi d one more vote that of vice presi dent john w eckhart was cast in favor of the resolution the follow ing five members voted against it trustees holpuch mrs sethness u s liner rams sinks biggest diver attacked by two submarines she escapes four torpedoes and veers into one of attackers range too close to permit use of deck guns periscope goes down fast after crash new york june 13 the story of how one of germany's largest submarines fell victim to yankee sea manship was told to-day when the big american steamship that did the trick arrived at an american port on her voyage to the other side the vessel was attacked at the same moment by two u-boats acting in concert from port and starboard it was on the morning of may 19 when the steamship was about 200 miles off the coast of ireland that the lookouts caught sight of two periscopes at the same instant they perceived two torpedoes already cleaving toward the liner the sub marines were too close to permit the liner to use her defense guns the captain ordered the helm hard over swinging the vessel out of her course as she turned the tor pedoes just missed her or grazed her bows at a harmless angle puts on all steam orders had been flashed to the engine room for every ounce of steam to be crowded in the boilers and great plumes of smoke began to trail from her funnels as the half naked men in the stokehold jumped to the work which meant life or death to all on board while the navy gunners chafed be side their six-inch pets the skipper stationed himself beside tire quarter master at the wheel and kept him reversing the helm at intervals so that the liner heeled like a yacht as she zigzagged between the two as sassins as she made her second turn two more torpedoes slithered toward her but her erratic course baffled the u-boats and both missed their mark another sharp order from the captain sent the liner swinging on her heel again this time so skillfully had she been maneuvered her sharp bow was pointed straight at the star board submarine too late to dodge it was too late for the german to get out of the way the american ship swept over the frail submersible with a shock felt by all on board and it was seen no more one blade of the liner's propeller was snapped off as she sank the Ã¼ boat as for the port submarine its periscope disappeared a few moments later vanderlip confers with northcliffe new york june 13 â€” lord north cliffe motored to westchester coun ty and spent part of the day golfing he had a conference with frank vanderlip president of the national city bank rear admiral robert e peary was a caller ex-czar granted right to cast vote petrograd june 13 nicholas romanoff former czar will be al lowed to vote at the elections for the constituent assembly the council in charge of the legislative preliminaries ruled to-day members of the ex czar's household may also vote pay prisoners is u.s proposal to the kaiser washington june 13 t0 prevent unnecessary hard ships the united states to-day proposed that if germany will act on a reciprocal basis the united states will grant all ger man officers taken prisoners the same rate of pay as officers of corresponding rank in the amer ican army this would mean that ger many would pay american of ficers held as prisoners and the united states german officers during the war the communication was sent to germany through the spanish government root begins vital parleys u s commission reaches petro grad as russian envoys arrive here for conferences petrograd via london june 13 â€” the american mission headed by elihu root has arrived here the american railroad commission headed by john f stevens consist ing of eleven members also arrived to-day and was escorted into the capital by m metinsky immediately after his arrival mr stevens said the commission's aim was to assist the russian people and the russian government especially in railroad affairs by placing at rus sia's disposal america's technical skill and industrial resources its primary object is to help the allies in the war against germany said mr stevens we are further ready to facilitate the supply to russia of war materi als and iron and coal russ mission in v 9 washington june 13 the rus sian commission has reached the united states according to advices received by the state department the russian mission includes special ambassador b a bakhmetieff and mme bakh metieff staff captain of the guard doubassoff aid-de-camp and mme doubassoff omeltchenko vice direct or of the customs department and karopvitch attache of the chancery of the war department many notables in part the ministry of war is represented by lieutenant general roop captaun lebedeff aid-de-camp to general roop captain chutt and lieutenant martinoff the ministry of ways and com munications sends professor lomen osoff member of the council of en gineers and head of the railroad mis sion m kuprianoff assistant engi neer m balkoff m postnikoff m volkenau m sak m delinoff the ministry of agriculture is rep resented by professor borodine and m putiloff the chancery of credit by m novitsky m pertzoff and m bushkaroff the artillery department by colonel oranovsky and captain visotsky principal questions to be dealt with at the sessions here will be railroads and credits pershing and t r get nebraska u degrees lincoln neb june vi â€” the uni versity oj nebraska to-day conferred the degree of doctor of laws on major general pershing and the de gree of doctor of civil law on theodore roosevelt peashing in paris acclaimed by throng seventy miles from front leader of american expedition pledges to do his part greeted at i station by joffre and sharp ] paris june 13 major general pershing arrived in paris late i to-day the general received a tumultu ous welcome as he proceeded through the thronged boulevards at the station he was welcomed by marshal joffre ambassador sharp and paul painleve minister of war after the greetings had taken place the party drove in open car riages through the grand boulevards ! general pershing riding with minis j ter painleve and marshal joffre with ambassador sharp to a hotel on the place de concordes which will be the american head.quarters dinner given by ambassador sharp at a dinner given tonight by ambassador sharp general pershing was introduced to the french cabinet francois de jessen quotes general pershing as saying i came to europe to organize the participation of our army in this immense conflict of free nations against the enemie3 of liberty and not to deliver fine speeches at ban quets as a man and a soldier 1 am profoundly proud of the high mis sion with which i am charged but all this is purely pergonal and con sequently might appear out of pro portion with the solemnity of the hour if 1 have thought it proper to indulge in this confidence it is be cause i wish to express my ad miration for the heroism of the i french soldiers and at the same time express my pride in being at the side of the french and allied armies u s knows what it wants to do it is much more important i think to announce that we are the precursors of an army that is firm ly resolved to do its part on the continent for the cause the ameri can nation has adopted as its own it is not my role to promise or propresy let it suffice to tell you we know what we are doing and what we want black jack pershing is now less than seventy miles from the western i battle front when general pershing landed at boulogne this morning he was met at the quay by general pelletier rep resenting the french government commandant hue representing the minister of war general lucas representing marshal joffre and others british soldiers and marines lined up along the quay rendered military honors as the vessel flying the stars and stripes preceded by destroyers and accompanied by hydroplanes and dirigible balloons steamed up the channel military bands played the star spangled banner and the marseil laise manchuriahits monitor in n.y diver net new york june 13 the 14 000-ton british steamship manchuria inward bound swerv ing in the fog to escape a subma rine net guarding the lower bay to-night crashed into the united states monitor amphitrite on patrol duty off quarantine the steamship carried 100 passengers and a crew of 200 a large rent was torn in its starboard bow the damage to the monitor was not disclosed a panic ensued on hoard the manchuria men and women rushed to the decks the two vessels were locked tight by the crash and the monitor backed into the submarine net only the opening of the net to-morrow will free her the manchuria began to take water fast and was beached on the mud flats off brooklyn row qver draft boardforstate washington flooded with pro tests against selection of ex emption body by lowden washington june 13 â€” protests against the appointment of exemp tion boards in Illinois on the recom mendation of governor lowden have been pouring in upon the war de partment and the president during the last few days the probable cry of partisanship in exemptions under a selective draft law was one of the reasons advanced by many members of congress for their opposition to the measure they are now pointing to the pro tests against the appointments as justification of their attitude wilson gravely concerned the appointment of local exemp tion boards is causing grave misap prehension with president wilson on account of such cases as Chicago presents with a mayor whose al leged pro-german leanings have made him a subject of national com ment and in the case of Illinois where the governor has been accused of partisanship in the appointment of a council of state defense senator lewis of Illinois said to night that the governor had evi denced extreme partisanship in the council of state defense and thus in the eyes of many citizens had disqualified himself for the more im portant work of naming members of exemption boards 30,004 boards to name it is estimated that at least 30,000 boards of exemption must be ap pointed while the president has the power to name every member the task is impossible in the alloted time in the case of Chicago and Illinois the president could possibly name the members of all the boards of exemption both local and review if he deems it necessary to expunge party bias it is possible that he will take such a step u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair thurxdny i'rtday and saturday somewhat mariner by fridny mod erate northwest winds breaming lium and variable tbmperatcrk kr.r twealtj-foiir hours ending 12 a m . highest s2 lowest 56 average 60 normal temperature for the day 66 deficiency of temperaluie since january 1 is decrees sunrise to-day 4:14 basset 7 20 complete government reocrt on page 16 london air raid victims 536 9 killed iplis i bam mm one german airplane shot down bomb hurled upon school kills 10 children wounds 50 others record toll of life defending craft battle invaders 18,000 feet in air roofs of city crowded with spectators of thrilling 15-minute raid i amsterdam june 13 â€” eng i land is contemplating moving its^^an capital from london because of the numerous air raids by the germans says the berlin morgenpost toll of recent raids date ol raid killed injured may u i may 25 ie 1/4 june 5 2 2 june 13 7 4j7 london june 13 1n the fourth raid on england by german aeroplanes 97 persons were killed to-day and 439 wounded the raiders traversed essex county and dropped bombs in lon the killed comprise 55 men 16 women and 26 children the injured include 223 men 122 women and 94 children no damage of military import ance was done according to offi cial reports thirteen bombs fell in london mostly in the poor districts of the east end one of the bombs struck a school house killing ten children *~ 4 and wounding fifty the casualty figures were an nounced late to-night by andrew bonar law bulk of casualties among school children one of the attacking airplanes was shot down it was announced by the earl of derby in the house f com mons the squadron was / jmpoattl of fifteen machines the raid lasted about fifteen minutes v the bulk of the casualties were in the crowded east end of london the ghastliest episode of the raid occurred at a school in that district a soldier who aided in the work of rescuing injured children told the story j hearing what i thought was gun a firing the soldier said i stopped fl to speak to a policeman just then j there was another explosion and the policeman pointing upward said " the raiders are out good heav ens they have got the school run round and give them all the help you can and i will get the police schoolroom reveals terrible sight vooked up in the sky and there i could just see five tiny little things like gilded fish miles up almost in visible looking round i could see three more to the south and per haps on the other side of the thames , i dashed around to the school as the a policemen advised and there i found mm the class mistress who had got the mm uninjured children into a passage h where if there came another bomb.^^f would be less likely to hurt she wa mm all alone until i came the sight was a terrible one ondh continued on 6th page sth column w l v â– vbh(p ate fipflv tilp drill of firpyipynl ftnviip^t whn tjnsz tiptzi nvin1~pfl thiq rtq ii si wlnyino t^nli^'tmon't wloola only i i days more in which to buy your liberty bonds subscription sale ends friday noon tjf a fb ib jp^^kpul